“I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, mountains , and then find somewhere where I can rest in peace and quiet… somewhere where I can finish my book” - Bilbo - The Fellowship of the Ring We spent the last 10 days in the Kachkar Mountains and Eastern Turkey. We will let the photos tell the travel story and Hagit will describe how it is to travel with a toddler Traveling with Liya A year ago, I talked to a friend who traveled with their 7 month old to London. She explained the difference between traveling as a couple to traveling as a threesome. She said it is a different trip. The baby needs to crawl just when you want to visit a museum, he wants to go to the park but you want to ... read more

"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." - John Lennon We are at the airport ready to begin our long awaited "vacances". We have been busy since returning from the far-east almost 2 years ago. Most of our energy was spent on "life" - Yaron started a new job, Hagit finished yet another university degree ( 3rd one - apparently she is as smart as she is beautiful y.b. ), we bought a new car. The uninspiring day to day we all share until we open the door (and pocketbooks) to temporarily leave it all behind. We get off the bandwagon, look how the rest of the world lives, ponder the meaning of life, only to conclude that the bandwagon isn’t that bad and we would like back on. As the ... read more

After 4.5 of hard travels as backpackers. sleeping in Tajik tents, crashing into Tibetan restaurants, arriving into random places in Laos or just staying in $2 dumps in diffrent places, we had a completely different 2 weeks to finish our trip We stoped being backpackers and became honeymooners To start the metamorphosis we got hair cuts (actually only Hagit got one - Yaron likes his hair long as it is), bought new swimming suits and beachwear. then we made flight reservations to take us between all the islands - no more long buses for us! Finlay, we made reservations to good hotels. only once in the past 2 weeks we slept in a place that had "guest-house" in it's name. the rest were all "resorts". the most expensive place we stayed with backpacking cost $15 (in ... read more

special long 2 week edition Before going to Burma all Yaron knew about it is that the road built between it and Thailand - called the Burmese Road - reminded ex-WWII solders in Israel's War of Independence of the road to sieged Jerusalem Before going to Burma all Hagit knew about it is from a game she played with her mother when she was a little girl. She would squat her eyes very thin and then all the people looked thin and dark - just like Burmese. 12 things we learned about Burma in 10 days there 1. For the past 10 years Burma is called Myanmar. 2. It is HOT in Myanmar. we could not be on the street between 10:00 and 16:00 in Yangon. so we saw DVDs in the hotel. the locals ... read more

TIME = DISTANCE devided by ??? you look at the map. 250 km. good. how long will it take to get there by bus? you could ask someone but that will not work (read the "lying" part in the previous blog) you could guess. but you have to take into account so many variables. The road condition. the number of pigs that will be loaded to the bus. the number of times the bus will break. does the driver get paid by the hour? does he want to arrive late? does he get free food somewhere? (surly he will stop of an hour). is the road flat or hilly? will we need to push the bus out of the mud? can it climb the mountains fast then 5 kph? how many cows will pass the ... read more